Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it.

Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.

What is the deepest level of reality? In this Quanta explainer, Vijay Balasubramanian, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, takes us on a journey through space-time to investigate what it’s ...

Zdeborová now leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.

A black hole formula worked out in the 1970s remains the most concrete clue physicists have about the threads of the space-time fabric.

Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret.

Computer scientists have long used vector addition systems to model how certain programs work, but they didn’t have a full understanding of how complicated they could be. Recent work has finally ...

Computer scientists have long used vector addition systems to model how certain programs work, but they didn’t have a full understanding of how complicated they could be. Recent work has finally ...

At the heart of every galaxy lies one of the most mysterious objects in the universe: a supermassive black hole. Millions to billions of times the mass of our sun, these giants power astrophysical ...